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Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Mon Sep 01 12:21:28 2008
Sort of... There are still some notable differences in behavior.

Owen

On Sep 1, 2008, at 5:47 AM, jim deleskie wrote:

The S series runs the same FTOS as the C and E series, as of a number
of months ago.  The only exception is the 2410, ie all 10G ports L2
only.


-jim

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Greg VILLAIN <[email protected]> wrote:

On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: 

Another thing to note (as near as I can tell, this applies to all
vendors).  All line cards will function
only at the lowest common denominator line card CAM level.

IOW, if you have single, dual, and quad-cam cards in your F10 chassis,
they'll all act like
single-CAM cards.

Owen


I'd have to second that. This is a very annoying fact, that you will find
mentioned nowhere.
What I also used to dislike is the lack of verbosity of 'show features' -
but that was back a year ago.
Btw, you absolutely want to avoid the S series, the CLI is a pain, and is
not the same as the E or C series, and lacks many features.
Price/10G port is interesting though, but not as much as with Arastra, if
that's switching you're into. (never tested any such kits though...)
My own 2 cents.

Greg VILLAIN